Holy Apostles Peter and Paul
Great Feast. A feast of the Lord or of the Theotokos.
Commemorated today
- The Holy, Glorious and All-praised Leaders of the Apostles, Peter and PaulApostle life on this site
The lives we have written
Holy Apostle Peter
The fisherman who spoke first and thought later, denied Christ to a servant girl in a courtyard, and was given the sheep anyway.
- Era
- First century, died at Rome in the 60s
- Region
- Bethsaida and Capernaum, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Rome
- Category
- Apostle, chief of the apostles, and martyr
- Principal feast for this profile
- June 29, with the Apostle Paul
Holy Apostle Paul
The man who was holding the coats at Stephen’s stoning, and who wrote most of the New Testament.
- Era
- First century, died at Rome in the 60s
- Region
- Tarsus, Damascus, Arabia, Antioch, Asia Minor, Greece, Jerusalem, and Rome
- Category
- Apostle to the nations, and martyr
- Principal feast for this profile
- June 29, with the Apostle Peter
Appointed readings
- 1 Peter 1:3–9
- 1 Peter 1:13–19
- 1 Peter 2:11–24
- John 21:15–25
- 2 Corinthians 11:21–12:9 continues in 12
- Matthew 16:13–19
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on June 29 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on July 12 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.